sick bay

noun

1. a hospital or dispensary, especially aboard ship.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sick bay¹

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

The sick were cared for by the doctor and his attentive sick-bay man, assisted by all the officers.

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Back the way he had come, back toward the sick bay, he pitched.

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Since Mura was in the isolation of ship sick bay the stripping of his cabin was a relatively simple job.

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All my men at quarters but West, who was on shore when we sailed, the men say on leave,—and Collins in the sick bay.

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She had a dreamy remembrance of the first day or two of her sojourn in what the girls called “the sick bay.”

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